Kevin Macdonald

"Black Sea" is a submarine movie, so to many moviegoers of a certain age, that's two-and-a-half stars right there. Nothing promises old-school pressure-cooking the way the subgenre of the sub thriller can, and while director Kevin Macdonald's drama springs all sorts of leaks in its second half, there are modest satisfactions along the way.

There's also a strong whiff of class consciousness, if the message that greedy multinational corporations can't be trusted constitutes as much. With a thick Scottish dialect, Jude Law plays Robinson, a recently laid-off marine salvage skipper and British navy veteran who has given his life to the sea but destroyed his marriage in the...

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